Middle English; of imitative origin. See also German keuchen, Dutch kuchen.
coch
coch (third-person singular simple present cochs, present participle cochin, simple past cocht, past participle cocht)
From Middle Welsh coch, from Proto-Brythonic *kox, borrowed from Latin coccum (“scarlet berry”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “berry”). Cognate with Cornish kogh (“scarlet”).
coch (feminine singular coch, plural cochion, equative coched, comparative cochach, superlative cochaf)
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| coch | goch | nghoch | choch |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
| gwyn | llwyd | du |
| coch; rhudd | oren, melyngoch; brown | melyn; melynwyn |
| melynwyrdd | gwyrdd | |
| gwyrddlas; glaswyrdd | asur, gwynlas | glas |
| fioled, rhuddlas; indigo | majenta; porffor | pinc, rhuddwyn |